Wolfgang Kapp

Wolfgang Kapp (24 July 1858-12 June 1922) was a German nationalist politician who led the failed Kapp Putsch of 1920.

Biography
Wolfgang Kapp was born on 24 July 1858 in New York City, New York, United States to a family of German dissidents who had fled from Prussia after the 1848 uprisings. Kapp's family returned to Germany in 1870, and Kapp graduated from the University of Tuebingen in 1886 before entering the Finance Ministry. In 1917, he helped in founding the monarchist German Fatherland Party, and he became a counter-revolutionary at the time of the November Revolution in 1918. In 1919, he was elected to the Reichstag, and he attempted to restore the monarchy in the 1920 Kapp Putsch. Howevers, Hans von Seeckt and the Reichswehr put the uprising down, and Kapp went into exile in Sweden. In 1922, he returned to appeal his case, but he died in Leipzig on 12 June.